http://www.p2pnet.net/story/37534If you’re in the UK and looking for a job, Warner Bros might be able to help you out.
It wants University of Manchester students to become online corporate rat finks.
And you can be pretty sure Manchester isn’t the only one.
Warner is willing to bribe students to the tune of £17,500 a year to spy on people, scam them, and rat them out.
That’s 26,785 Canadian. Not bad.
Here’s the job desciption >>>
During the 12 month internship, duties will include: monitoring local Internet forums and IRC for pirated WB and NBCU content and in order to gather information on pirate sites, pirate groups and other pirate activities; finding new and maintaining existing accounts on private sites; scanning for links to hosted pirated WB and NBCU content and using tools to issue takedown requests; maintaining and developing bots for Internet link scanning system (training provided); preparing sending of infringement notices and logging feedback; performing trap purchases of pirated product and logging results; inputting pirate hard goods data and other intelligence into the forensics database; selecting local keywords and submitting local filenames for monitoring and countermeasure campaigns and periodically producing research documents on piracy related technological developments. Various training will be provided.
The ‘offer’, quoted on TorrentFreak, closes March 31.
I wonder what happened to all the sophisticated electronic systems that they keep telling us that they use? This is "old fashioned" being paid to grass on your neighbour. That's really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
